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Marine's Father Launches Web Site Offering a Taste of Home to the Troops Abroad / 'For Servicemen and Women Who Enjoy a Cigar, This is the Perfect Gift.'
Jump to full article: PR Newswire, 2007-11-27
Intro: Stan Pottinger, founder of http://www.CigarsStarsAndStripes.com, got the idea of sending cigars to the troops while talking on the telephone to his son, a Marine in Iraq. "I said, "What do you need?'" Pottinger says, "and he said, 'I could use a few cigars.' When I asked him why-he wasn't a big smoker-he said they were a good way to relax and good barter with civilian contractors for stuff they couldn't get at the PX. But the most unusual thing he said was they were a diplomatic ice- breakers with sheiks, local officials, and Iraqi soldiers.'"
Since then, Pottinger has spoken with servicemen and women who have had the same experience as his son. "Everyone considers cigars a unique moment of enjoyment in the midst of war," Pottinger says. "One guy said the smell of a cigar took him home quicker than photographs. For me, that alone was a reason to launch this Web site."
The Web site's biggest product is gift certificates.
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